Stay
They've been together since teens
both have always had dreams
it would be easy for me to say that no one really knows what it means
but we're all dreamers in this nightmare of a world
he was a rapper trying to get his opinions heard
the fact is he was just another rapper
she didn't believe in him, it hurt
she was training to be a nurse
and for her parents there was nothing worse
than a white rapper
with no money to put in her purse
he tried telling them all he could make it
in the studio making beats, recording
taking cds to market street, priced at a pound
standing around, proving it works, self promoting, selling t shirts
couldn't knock him for trying
but the dream it was dying
and nobody was buying, in fact they wouldn't take them for free
a desperate boy is all they could see
with no recognition to the art that he holds in his heart and soul
before he knew it he was just another young Mancunian on the dole
writing bars at home
Jeremy Kyle and lose woman was too much too take, he was alone
all he ever wanted was to be free
but he became stuck in doors and his girl just did her degree
you have to leave the slippery slope to climb the golden hill
the problem occurred when she told him she forgot to take the pill
and then before he knew it he was behind a pound stretcher till
he wasn't living, so the top shelf made him find his will
whiskey, jinn, anything at all to help him escape
but being stuck in mother care buying baby clothes you know its too late
unable to find a Godfather, he couldn't find a mate
he just lost his faith, lost it in the rhymes and put it in x
the drugs were the factor that's what he started to take
he began to fight and he filled up with so much hate
'stay' is what he said
not him, not the description of man I have so far gave
she heard 'stay'
'stay' from the ambulance man that shes started to date.
poem by Daniel McCann
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